I’m writing this post in hopes it saves some people a little heartache. runDisney DOES NOT allow bib sales or transfers and if you are caught you can be banned and no one wants that to happen. I have seen a lot of chatter on Facebook and Twitter about people selling or wanting bibs. DON”T DO IT! I have also seen “search terms” about how people ended up at my site that are looking for info about bib sale or transfer.

Contact runDisney if you are unable to race. Sometimes you are able to defer your entry to the next year, but never buy or sell a race bib. If you really want to run look into the charity groups that offer entries into sold-out runDisney races. Than everyone wins!

Here is the link to the runDisney website. Click on the event you are looking for and click on registration on the tab bar. It will than give you a chance to click on charity groups.

Fans can expect appearances from Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel (Frozen), Dane Cook (Disney’s Planes), Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak (Saving Mr. Banks), Ty Burrell (Muppets Most Wanted) and top Marvel and Disney•Pixar talent. And in typical D23 Expo fashion, fans can also anticipate surprise appearances from more of their favorite stars.

I would also love to highlight an event happening on Sunday of The D23 Expo.

Women of Pixar – Jessie. Dory. Sally. Merida. Although they never cross paths and exist in different worlds, these iconic Pixar females have one thing in common: girl power. Meet a dynamic group of women from Pixar, whose experience and success at the studio have helped craft some of the most memorable animated films in recent history. They will share stories from their journeys and the lessons they have learned along the way. (Sunday, August 11, 1 p.m.)

Expo attendees will also have access to an Exclusive Screening of Disney’s Planes in 3D, featuring an introduction by some very special guests. (Friday, August 9, 3 p.m.)

It was announced that runDisney will be at the start line of The D23 Expo with the D2.3 Fun Run.

A limited number of D23 Members will get the opportunity to experience the magic of a runDisney event and take part in a 2.3-mile fun run. The experience will include signature runDisney elements like Disney characters and the opportunity to run through a theme park, Disney California Adventure. In addition, runners will receive a shirt for participating and enjoy a little extra pixie dust along the way.

This sounds like a lot of fun. I can tell you since I’ve had the pleasure of attending 2 runDisney meet-ups that this will probably not dissapoint.

Be sure to pay attention to all the social media of runDisney and D23 for details.

This experience will only be available to D23 Members and a Membership number will be required at the time of registration. Fans can join D23 at www.D23.com and at www.DisneyStore.com/D23. Details on how to register to be selected for the runDisney D2.3 Fun Run will be available the week of July 22 on the Disney Parks Blog, Facebook (runDisney), and Twitter @runDisney, and @DisneyD23.

Since 1955, the Disneyland Resort has welcomed more than 600 million guests.

On opening day July 17, 1955, Disneyland had 18 major attractions including the Mad Tea Party, the Jungle Cruise, Autopia and the Mark Twain Riverboat, and it featured five themed lands: Fantasyland, Adventureland, Tomorrowland, Frontierland and Main Street, U.S.A.

Approximately 50 certified scuba divers work on the Disneyland Resort Facilities team, which maintain attractions like World of Color, Fantasmic and Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.

Today Disneyland has more than 60 adventures and attractions in eight themed lands. New Orleans Square was added in 1966, Critter Country (originally Bear County) in 1972 and Mickey’s Toontown in 1993.

California Adventure opened in 2001.

Disneyland has roughly 25,000 cast members.

The Matterhorn Bobsleds opened in 1959.

More than 800 species of plants, native to 40 different countries, grow at Disneyland Resort.

More than 30 different languages are spoken among Disneyland Resort cast membersGuest parking for approximately 10,000 vehicles is available in the Mickey & Friends parking structure, which opened June 27, 2000. At that time, it was the largest parking structure in North America.

Mickey and Friends Parking structure was the largest parking structure in North America when it opened in June of 2000. It has parking for roughly 10,000 vehicles.

More than 5,000 gallons of paint are used each year to give Disneyland a better-than-new look.

Disneyland uses 1,000 brooms, 500 dust pans and 3,000 mops a year to keep it clean. Approximately 30 tons of trash are collected during a busy park day. Custodial works collect 12 million pounds of trash each year.

In 1 year guests buy an estimated 3 million hamburgers, 2 million hot dogs, 6.5 million orders of french fries, 1.6 million servings of popcorn, 3.2 million servings of ice cream, 1.9 million gallons of soft drinks and 2.8 million churros and the Disneyland Resort.

The Disneyland Band has logged more than 3,500 marching miles and more than 90,000 performances since opening day in 1955 and draws from a repertoire of more than 400 musical numbers.

Harrods, a luxury store in London, had an amazing display in their windows during the 2012 holidays of stunning dresses each inspired by a Disney Princess. These amazing dresses will be on display at the D23 Expo in the Treasure of the Walt Disney Archives exhibit. I have a very soft spot in my heart for fashion as a form of art and these are right up my alley.

The Tiana inspired dress by Ralph & Russo.

Versace made a dress inspired by Cinderella.
Elie Saab made a dress inspired by Aurora.
Marchesa made a dress inspired by Ariel.
Valentino made a dress inspired by Belle.
Oscar de la Renta made a dress inspired by Snow White.
And the list goes on…

The Ariel inspired dress by Marchesa.

I will definitely be adding this exhibit to my must see list at The D23 Expo.

Next Sunday July 28th, I’m running the Wharf to Wharf race which is 6 miles from Santa Cruz to Capitola California. I ran it last year and I really enjoyed it. This race is known far an wide as a fun event. Bands set up in the driveway of beach houses and play as you run by. People stand on their balconies and squirt people with their hose. Spectators hand out oranges, water, licorice and even beer to some. There isn’t a medal involved, it is just a fun enjoyable race with beautiful scenery.

The following weekend, August 4th, I will be running The Giant Half Marathon. This is put on by the San Francisco Giants. I ran this one last year too and loved it! The finish line is inside AT&T Park on the field! As a Giants fan that is pretty cool to be on the field and take pictures from that point of view.

The following Thursday, August 8th-12th, my family and I are heading to Disneyland for 4 days. I will be covering The D23 Expo on the 9th, 10th and 11th while my 3 year old daughter drags deedee (that is what she calls daddy) around the parks. I’m sure they will ride Small World, Tea Cups, the Little Mermaid and wait in line for the princesses 187 times 🙂 I am very excited to get media access to The D23 Expo for all the fun events and be able to share them with you. I’ll be kicking off my D23 Expo experience with participating in the runDisney #D23Expo 2.3-mile Fun Run.

2 weeks later we will be back at Disneyland August 29-September 2nd for our annual pilgrimage to the Disneyland Half Marathon weekend. I am running the Dumbo Double Dare Challenge, which means I will be running the 10k Saturday and the half marathon Sunday. My 3 year old will be running the Kids Race too. I LOVE Disneyland Half Marathon weekend. It is so fun at the expo and see everyone walking around the parks wearing their shirts and medals.

Next stop after Disneyland Half we will be hopping a plane from LAX to Savannah to go to Disney’s Hilton Head Resort for the week. My sister-in-law has a a DVC villa there for the week. Never been there and very excited. Has anyone ever been to the Savannah/Hilton Head area?

My longest race this fall is the Marine Corp Marathon in DC end of October. My first time to DC, so that will be fun. I have to keep training with a busy schedule, so balancing everything and not getting to worn out will be key.

Today was our last full day in Florida. Tomorrow we make the 2 hour drive back to the Orlando Airport to fly home to California. Today was the first day where is was clear enough without rain that I actually got to run on the beach. Woohoo!

I only did 3 miles, but it felt great. My husband and daughter got to play on the beach and swim while I ran, so it was fun for the whole family.

It was about 88 degrees and super humid, but it was slightly overcast. It didn’t feel to bad.

We have family in Vero Beach and that is typically where we stay when we are in Florida (and not in Orlando at Disney World). It is such a beautiful town with fun restaurants and cute shops. They have great beaches too.

Yesterday we went up to the HUGE Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach and I will have a post and giveaway from there soon.

Next weekend I will be running the Wharf to Wharf, which is from Santa Cruz to Capitola, California. It is 6 miles and a beautiful course. There is no medal involved, but it always sells out in just a couple days (15,000 runners) and there are tons of people cheering you on the whole time. It is a very fun race.

On a side note I am all set to go to the D23 Expo- “The Ultimate Disney Fan Event” and bring you all the details! I will be at Disney Aug 8-12. Than 2 weeks later I will be back at Disneyland to run the runDisney Dumbo Double Dare Challenge consisting of the Disneyland 10k Saturday and the Half Marathon Sunday. My 3 year old is going to be the happiest girl ever with so much Disneyland in one month! I was joking with my husband that I get media credentials to go to the D23 expo and he gets to take our daughter on Small World and the Little Mermaid ride 56 times! It is a win win for both of us right? (haha) Maybe I’m a little more excited than he is, but he loves it too. I think my husband wishes our 3 year old met the height requirement for Radiator Springs though.

If you want to enter my current fun Florida giveaways I have going on here is the link: Enter All 3 Giveaways!

Are you heading to the D23 Expo in a couple weeks? Or if you haven’t heard of the D23 Expo it is “The Ultimate Disney Fan Event”. It has everything Disney under one roof. Attendees get unprecedented access to Disney films, television, and theme park news.

Look at this great experience available this year at the D23 expo:

“To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Disney VoluntEARS program, Disney Citizenship invites fans and families to give back to their communities as “honorary” VoluntEARS for the day at the D23 Expo. The Ultimate Disney Fan Event takes places August 9 – 11 at the Anaheim Convention Center.”

What a great way to help give back!

Here is more information:

““Honorary” VoluntEARS will work alongside Disney employees and nonprofits, including Feeding America, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Inside the Outdoors, First Book and local Boys & Girls Clubs on one of three service projects:

Create healthy snack packs for a local food bank: Fans will pack healthy snack bags for kids and families in Los Angeles County. Snack packs will be distributed through the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.

Plant seeds for school and community vegetable gardens: Working with Inside the Outdoors, “honorary” VoluntEARS will prepare vegetable and herb seedlings that will later be distributed to nearby school and community gardens.

Assemble creativity kits for kids: Guests will join First Book and Boys & Girls Clubs to decorate and fill creativity kits with school supplies and Disney books for thousands of kids heading back to school this fall.

While at the Citizenship pavilion, guests can share what inspires them to create a brighter tomorrow at the “Be Inspired” photo booth. Fans can also boost their Disney Citizenship I.Q. and win prizes by participating in a virtual scavenger hunt that will lead them through the Expo in search of fun facts. The scavenger hunt will be part of the D23 Expo app, available later this month in the iTunes and Google Play stores.”

Yesterday we went to Disney’s Vero Beach Resort. I love this resort. We have stayed there before and have also gone just for their character breakfast and pirate dinner. We have family that lives in Vero Beach and it makes it very convenient. Every time we come my daughter wants to take her picture with the Tic Toc Croc out front.

If you have never stayed at Disney’s Vero Beach Resort and looking for a mellow beach vacation I definitely recommend this resort. They have a great pool and even a little pirate ship splash area. The miniature golf area near the pool is a ton of fun and the resort is right there on a beautiful beach. They have campfires with s’mores and songs and we love the restaurant.

Disney’s Vero Beach Resort is less then 2 hours from Walt Disney World and is on the Atlantic coast of Florida. Vero Beach is a beautiful town with some fun shops, good restaurants and they often have fun festivals. At a certain time of year you can even watch the baby sea turtles make their way to the ocean! We have yet to do this and missed it by a week this trip, but it is on my list to see one of these years.

Disney’s Vero Beach Resort also has a store where you can buy many of the favorite souvenirs you can get at Disney World. This of course is also one of my 3 year old daughter’s favorite parts. Yesterday she talked her aunt into buying her a princess Minnie plush toy, princess ear hat and a pink pooka shell necklace. On the way home she passed out in the car.

Since I am going all these fun places, I am hosting giveaways to win fun stuff from these fun places! For the giveaway from Disney’s Vero Beach Resort I picked out this adorable hat with the Disney’s Vero Beach logo. I love sea turtles, so I thought this was cute. (Did you know the largest sea turtle ever recorded was over 9 and a half feet!!!! That is huge!!!!) My daughter asked me “Mama what do the kids win?” I said that their parents enter to win the hat, so she said she wanted to give something to the kids (cute right?) She picked out a Nemo beach ball and a package of her favorite Disney twisty lollipops.

And here is a pic of Lily’s giveaway.

You can enter all the giveaways! Below is also the current giveaway that I picked up at Kennedy Space Center the day before.a Rafflecopter giveaway

Don’t forget to enter Lily’s giveaway too so I can tell her that a mommy or daddy is winning something for a kid. 🙂a Rafflecopter giveaway
Have you entered the giveaway I got at Kennedy Space Center? “Failure is not an option.” LOVE this!

The runDisney Tinker Bell Half Marathon and Kids Races 2014 are already sold out, but you can still gain entry to the half marathon through travel partners and charity groups. For more info about how that works, here is a post I wrote about gaining entry to sold out races.

This is also still room in the 5k and 10k events for Tinker Bell weekend in January!

I am registered for both the 10k and the half marathon. I’m still tempted to run the 5k too…but I’m running Dopey the weekend before, so I would have to change my name to “Totally Out of My Mind Full Crazy Mama” and that would just make a really long blog name.

AND for the first time ever I will be having a family member running a race with me! (other than a kids race) My sister is going to run the Tinker Bell 10k with me!!! So excited!!! This will be her first race ever!!!!!!! Sounds like a great way to celebrate her 40th year of life 🙂

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